My Many Issues
I heard a blurb on NPR this morning about how blogs have been getting people fired when they talk about work, so I'm vowing to only talk about work in a generic way...but anyway...they got me a space heater for my office, since it's frigid in here. Yesterday was my first day where my fingers didn't freeze up on the keyboard. So of course I spent all of last night thinking "Did I turn off the heater?" I was trying to remember the exact moment when I turned it off so I could convince myself that I did. Meanwhile I'm picturing the building going up in flames, me pulling up to work and it looking like that scene from Office Space when the building is on fire. Needless to say, when I pulled up this morning - no flames, no fire trucks. I turned it off, just like I thought I did.
I also obsessively check the oven to make sure I turned it off. I ask if Chris locked the door every night (when I'm not asleep before him). If I lose something, I berate myself for it and then look everywhere, and yet continue to do things like put my ipod in my knitting bag (why? Who knows). It's amazing that I can be so inconsistently anal about stuff. I'm incredibly anal about all the things above, and yet my car's a mess, I can't remember to water my plants, and I often pay bills late because I forget about them, not because I don't have the money. Just like that guy at my last job said I AM a walking contradiction. Damn! Actually I think I become obsessed with certain things because I'm so likely to do them. I spent years of my life with my mom asking me where something important was just so she could tell me she found it somewhere else.
Mom - "Hey Jen, where are those earrings I gave you?"
Me - "Uh, in my room"
Mom - "No, they're right here, in my hand because If found them in a coffee cup."
You get the idea. She had a point.
So I took some knitting picutres this morning, but didn't have time to get them off the camera. I'll do that tonight for all to enjoy.
Posted by jen at January 19, 2005 09:04 AM
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I love my space heater. I couldn't live at work without it!
I am the same way actually. I get really mad if things aren't where I think I put them...
Posted by: frecklegirl at January 19, 2005 12:46 PM
I like to hide things in coffee cups in the cupboards. That's what you were doing with the earrings, right?
Posted by: Anne Marie at January 19, 2005 04:39 PM
Lug, you are too hard on yourself! It's true. And maybe a little OCD, but that's okay (I'm not being pot calling kettle black, I'm being pot recognizing kettle as one of it's own...)
I now have to put my keys in a bowl everytime I put them down - everytime - or they are lost, gone, forever. One time I lost them in our front yard. And I have roughly 24 years of schooling. So there you go. ;-)
Posted by: Jenny at January 19, 2005 06:15 PM
OFFICE SPACE!!!!!
Sorry, i just had to get that out :)
"Uh, I don't like my job.I don't think I am going to go anymore." Or whatever Peter says...hee hee.
Posted by: Stacey at January 21, 2005 04:52 PM
